Week in Review: April 9th, 2010
Filed Under: Week in Review On: April 9, 2010 posted by: casey
Welcome back to the Week in Review, a (somewhat) short-and-sweet recap of 20x200 news and links!

Guess who's in New York Magazine this week? 20x200's Austin Kleon, whose new book of poems, Newspaper Blackout, makes the mag's Approval Matrix somewhere between Highbrow and Brilliant. Score! Last week we released Austin's fourth edition on 20x200, The Travelogue.

Lisa Congdon's Collection a Day in Martha Stewart Living
"Collections have been documented for centuries—but never like this," writes Martha Stewart Living on Lisa Congdon's Collection a Day project. Through 2010, Lisa will drawing, painting, or a photographing a different collection every single day and uploading it to her blog.

Obsessive Consumption book on the T Magazine Blog + Daily Candy
“Read from beginning to end, 'Obsessive Consumption’ reveals a happy (if somewhat guilty) grasshopper who likes a good bargain as much as she likes a good burrito. Bingaman-Burt engages in the same name-brand culture as the rest of us, but in her life, at least, it’s art.” - Andy Port on Kate Bingaman-Burt’s new book, Obsessive Consumption, in the T Magazine Blog
Daily Candy's online version of The Weekend Guide also suggests you flip through Kate's book, noting, “Because buying it is delightfully meta.”

Valerie Hegarty at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
Not that we're not excited about the gorgeous weather as of late, but spring turns our minds to the fantastic museum and gallery shows going up, coming down, and vying for our attention in this season of artful heavy-hitters. What we're trying to say is, make sure to enjoy the sunshine, but don't miss Valerie Hegarty's show Cosmic Collisions, currently on view at Nicelle Beauchene through this Sunday only!

Youngna Park on GOOD Magazine's Picture Show
20x200 edition-maker and JBP's own Youngna Park was featured yesterday on GOOD Magazine's Picture Show! Youngna's series, Off Season Sugar Cane Workers, documents the 2 - 3 months of daily life during the rest period between harvests.
From the Web
- The Web 2.0 Expo is entering its third year of gathering designers, developers, innovators and entrepreneurs under one room for three full days of inspiring talks. On October 18-21st, the New York branch of the conference will gather, and you (yes, you!) too can submit a (video) proposal to speak.
- Sara and Jen took at field trip to Tucker Nichols studio at the Marin Headlands and snapped this tantalizing picture of his space and works in progress.
- Looking for the perfect place to hang your Mike Monteiro? Here you go.
- Noah Kalina created a special series of portraits for this show in LA which, he says, probably won't be shown anywhere else.
New Editions This Week
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| Try Letting Go by Sean Greene | Lumber Mill by Bryan Schutmaat | Train Yard by Bryan Schutmaat |
That's it for this week, collectors! We're off to bask in the sunshine hit those closing gallery shows. See anything we missed? Reply to @20x200 on Twitter.




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